Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHRISTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most quaintly touching, in her Last Line: "than yet I am to you. So ist good night." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Germany; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
Two strangers meeting at a festival; Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall. -- TENNYSON. MOST quaintly touching, in her German tongue -- Haply, had he but mastered that as well As she his English, this were not to tell: -- Touring through her dear Fatherland, the young American first found her, as she sung "Du bist mir nah' und doch so fern," while fell Their eyes together, and the miracle Of love and doom was wrought. Her father wrung The lovers from each other's arms forever -- Forgive him, all forgiving souls that can! She died that selfsame hour -- just paused to write Her broken heart's confession thus: "I never Was O so loving in a young gentleman Than yet I am to you. So ist Good night." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
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